Posted by Anonymous
On 12:22 AM
La Quadrature du Net joins the blackout operation launched by Hungarian civil rights activists who oppose the newly enacted media law. Everybody is invited to join the blackout and contact their representatives to oppose any kind of censorship in the European Union.
This law imposes a stringent regulation of printed, audiovisual and online media which severely undermines the democratic foundations of the Hungarian republic.
Today, La Quadrature...
Posted by Anonymous
On 11:42 PM
Oslo newspaper Aftenposten continues to churn out stories related to the content of more than 250,000 diplomatic cables that the US had intended to keep secret. Among the topics: Sri Lankan dealings with Iran, alleged French espionage and German-US spy satellites, and Israel’s plans for war.
Here follows a summary of revelations emerging recently from the WikiLeaks documents to which Aftenposten has gained access:
# French officials have been accused...
Posted by Anonymous
On 1:32 AM
Greetings.
We are Anonymous.
The year is 2011.
Individually, we each sit powerless, watching the world transform.
Collectively, we possess the power to transform the world.
They wont listen to you, we will make them hear us.
Let the politicians know.
Let the social leaders know.
Let the bankers know, let the marketers know.
Let the observers know, let the soldiers know.
Let the critics, the celebrities, the businessmen,
the homeless, the rich,...
Posted by Anonymous
On 3:44 AM
At the beginning of this year EFF identified a dozen important trends in law, technology and business that we thought would play a significant role in shaping digital rights in 2010, with a promise to revisit our predictions at the end of the year. Now, as 2010 comes to a close, we're going through each of our predictions one by one to see how accurate we were in our trend-spotting. Today, we're looking back on Trend #3, Global Internet Censorship,...
Posted by Anonymous
On 12:38 AM
NEW YORK — The number of U.S. consumers who filed for bankruptcy protection in 2010 was the highest in five years, and the figure could rise as Americans struggle with excess debt in an uncertain economy, a report issued Monday said.
Roughly 1.53 million consumer bankruptcy petitions were filed in 2010, up 9 percent from 1.41 million in 2009, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute, citing data from the National Bankruptcy Research Center.
Filings...
Posted by Anonymous
On 9:46 AM
Despite newsroom layoffs in 2010 and economic forecasts that this may be a tough year for media companies, several top investigative journalists say 2011 could be a turning point for their craft. The group — which represents print, broadcast and online; national and local; profit and nonprofit organizations — predicts we may be entering a new era of investigative reporting. They expect to see:
* an increase in nonprofit investigative journalism...
Posted by Anonymous
On 8:20 AM
After WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested in London, an international group of former intelligence officers and ex-government officials released a statement in support of his work. We speak to one of the signatories, Daniel Ellsberg, the famous whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers about the Vietnam War in 1971. "If I released the Pentagon Papers today, the same rhetoric and the same calls would be made about me," Ellsberg says....
Posted by Anonymous
On 8:11 AM
By the time the conference call ended, it was nearly midnight at Bank of America’s headquarters in Charlotte, N.C., but the bank’s counterespionage work was only just beginning.
A day earlier, on Nov. 29, the director of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, said in an interview that he intended to “take down” a major American bank and reveal an “ecosystem of corruption” with a cache of data from an executive’s hard drive. With Bank of America’s share price...
Posted by Anonymous
On 11:58 PM
The German government expects Hungary to make changes to a new media law that would tighten government control over news outlets and has drawn criticism from fellow European Union members.
Deputy Foreign Minister Werner Hoyer told a German newspaper that he hoped Hungary would move quickly to change the law, which is set to take effect on Jan. 1. Hungary takes over the EU's rotating presidency from Belgium on Saturday.
"I assume that the final...
Posted by Anonymous
On 2:27 AM
This is a message for you, mighty of the world:
Cry, you cry, angry, insult us, you set very serious and proclaim new laws, will threaten us with jail, you call the defense with big words and principles, you try to scare us with a gray world without culture and entertainment that we will be guilty .
You use all the resources that happen to you with a single purpose: business as usual.
Under all the noise that you generate, under all empty words,...
Posted by Anonymous
On 2:00 AM
Wired published the first chat logs on June 10, 2010. In the article, they indicate that these represent roughly 25% of the logs they received from Adrian Lamo of his chats with Bradley Manning. Later, Wired’s Kevin Poulsen told Glenn Greenwald of Salon that the logs were complete with the exception of “Manning discussing personal matters that aren’t clearly related to his arrest, or apparently sensitive government information that I’m not throwing...
